From the course: Advanced Express
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File upload basics
- [Instructor] When we look at our registration form, we see that it already contains a file upload field. Now one could assume that this is sufficient to send a file to a server. Unfortunately, it's not that easy. Let's fill out the form and inspect the payloads to understand the problems so I'm just putting in some bogus data. Some password, and I will also choose a file to be uploaded and I'm opening from development tools I select preserve log so that the redirect won't clear the history and I click submit. Now when I look into this registration request, we see on the bottom of the headers the request headers. If we scroll down in it, we see that there is also a section for form data. And there we see that we are transmitting a few fields. If we look at the source, we see that the data is encoded similar to a theory stream if we do a get request. We also see in the payload that while the file name of the uploaded image was sent, the binary data is missing. This is because, to…
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